so new developers have just had half the playerbase removed from their game
wow great to know
I meant content that players create directly within the games, not UGC.
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That’s exactly what I was referring to. Roblox just doesn’t explain things clearly.
I was referring to 3D assets created within games by the game’s playerbase.
How will ‘pls donate’ be 13+? What rules does it breach in the policies?
Oh yeah sure they will just put their ai engineering team on making an AI that can mimic human behaviour play an entire game and then age rate it.
It’s a social game, whereas Meepcity is a “Roleplay” game.
Wait next year? Does this mean there are no plans to get anything to support this upcoming change?
My game has a small portion of public drawings and aren’t the main focus of the game, so it would be ideal to be able to hide said drawings if the user is <13, otherwise this will kill a very large portion of my player base.
Unless there is a pre existing api we are allowed to use to do this? Some clarification would be nice on this!
I am very certain it’s going to do the complete opposite
The biggest issue though is the chat in innocent games. Has anything been done for this?
This policy is great for kids on Roblox! Games will be rated well as they should be, and prevent bad games from being shown to kids! Nice update and change! Roblox is evolving for the better!
There seems to be a lot of confusion around this update. The Roblox-assigned genre and subgenre have nothing to do with determining whether a game is a “social hangout” or not; it’s a new descriptor in the experience guidelines that the developer would have to explicitly set when taking the questionnaire for their experience.
Whether developers will actually rate their experiences honestly or not can’t be guaranteed.
You can report experiences with inaccurate age guidelines, and action will be taken. This is also available on the Report Abuse screen.
Developers’ honesty isn’t important, but if they don’t lie about this, things will go much better for them, I’d say.
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If an experience has Blood but it has to be toggled on will it still need to rate itself with this? It’s dumb that we can’t add options for users above the policy age requirement.
I believe this change was requested by the Turkish government because its a weird timing of choice to publish this now.
However this is unrealistic. The kids will find a way to play it one way or other. Limiting it makes it worse because something restricted makes it more appealing, its the human psychology.
Here is the context behind what warranted these changes.
This was also the reason for the group wall limitations for <13 users.
Not to mention, this hurts actual games more than inappropriate ones. PLS Donate will be restricted to >13 audiences while Meepcity gets to stay all ages, especially with the status update.
Oh wow, well either way this will also favor the authorities of my government because they banned Roblox for failing to categorise games and limit accordingly…
Well, i dont get you. How is meepcity is the main issue when we have a lot to restrict (as discussed everywhere lately in devforum)?
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I find your approach to MeepCity hypocritical for a few reasons, because here’s the thing: You want an age restriction applied to MeepCity because there are inappropriate avatars and people say inappropriate things in chat, right?
Well, I have bad news for you—this is possible in literally 99% of other games too. So, how about we just ban them all? How’s that for an idea?
It’s really interesting how you classify certain games as inappropriate, because “unsuitable” user behavior and avatar choices aren’t exclusive to games like MeepCity. You can join any game with items you’ve combined from the Roblox catalog, and they’re visible everywhere, plus there are multiple filter bypass methods. I’m not exaggerating; these things are possible in literally every game. So, how exactly does this work? I genuinely want to know.
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I’m just using MeepCity as an example compared to games like PLS Donate which really shouldn’t be restricted. I really don’t care about the avatars and chat, It’s mainly the status feature they added that they do not moderate yet know everybody abuses. I get your points though, I can’t really think of a better example.
This issue is more prevalent in games like MeepCity which encourage inappropriate user actions by having low moderation, a status feature, and an in-game avatar editor. This is why I used it as an example. I don’t really have that much of a problem with meepcity staying all ages, but if this IS the case then I definitely have a problem with PLS Donate being restricted, if this makes sense.
No game moderates text; the filters are enough, and that’s already handled by Roblox itself.
They get around it through trial and error, like if something gets hashtagged, they just try another variation until they eventually bypass it. So, it feels like the issue isn’t really with MeepCity here.
Then, games like Adopt Me! should also be banned since players can type the same things on text boards/role-play names there. So, we’re not really getting anywhere with this.
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